Isaiah 64:1

Translations

Modern

If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence,

Traditional

Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,

Literal

If only You would rend the heavens and come down; at Your presence the mountains would shake,

Latin

Utinam dirumperes cælos, et descenderes; a facie tua montes defluerent;

Original

Hebrew

English

If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence,

Notes

Isaiah 63:15–64:12

The prophet’s reflections on the past (Isaiah 63:7–14) inspire him to pray that God would now rescue his people as he has done before.

Theme notes and profiles

Isaiah God’s Servant Salvation in Isaiah

Events

Prophecies of Isaiahc. 759 BC

Related verses

Micah 1:3–4
For behold, the LORD comes forth from His dwelling place; He will come down and tread on the high places of the earth.
Exodus 19:18–19
Mount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke, because the LORD had descended on it in fire. And the smoke rose like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently.
Revelation 20:11
Then I saw a great white throne and the One seated on it. Earth and heaven fled from His presence, and no place was found for them.
Nahum 1:5–6
The mountains quake before Him, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles at His presence—the world and all its dwellers.
Mark 1:10
As soon as Jesus came up out of the water, He saw the heavens breaking open and the Spirit descending on Him like a dove.
Psalm 144:5–6
Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.
Psalm 68:8
…the earth shook and the heavens poured down rain before God, the One on Sinai, before God, the God of Israel.
Habakkuk 3:1–13
This is a prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, according to Shigionoth:
Isaiah 63:15
Look down from heaven and see, from Your holy and glorious habitation. Where are Your zeal and might? Your yearning and compassion for me are restrained.
Amos 9:13
“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when the plowman will overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes, the sower of seed. The mountains will drip with sweet wine, with which all the hills will flow.
Exodus 3:8
I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
Judges 5:4–5
O LORD, when You went out from Seir, when You marched from the land of Edom, the earth trembled, the heavens poured out rain, and the clouds poured down water.

Glossary

Baptism of Jesus Isaiah, Book of New Creation, New Creature New Jerusalem

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Judgments: Design of Mountain: Melted Mountains: God: Causes, to Melt Mountains: Volcanic Fires of, Alluded To Volcanoes: General Scriptures Concerning

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